Nigel Aylmer sent me this image in June 2008, he wrote:
"While I was in Daytona Beach last month, I found this cockpit in a transport / storage yard on the road to DeLand.
The sign on the side reads:
'The Advanced Concepts Testbed and Cockpit Procedures Trainer
were built by the ACT/CPT Team
Completed April 1994'
It then lists all the people in the team.
It looks like either a Boeing 707 or 727; it would be kind of odd to put the eye brow windows in if it was a mockup..?
Wonder which was the donating airframe, must have been plenty of old 707s and 727s around in the early 1990s..."
Steven Smith wrote:
"The logo above the sign on the ACT/CPT Boeing nose is from ERAU: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. It is an early logo from 1926. ERAU moved from Miami up to Daytona Beach (KDAB).
Miami (KMIA) was the dumping ground for old jets (plus 2 and 4 engine props) in the 1950's/60's/70's/80's. The north west corner of the airport was the final resting place of many Boeing, Douglas, MacDD, Lockheed, Convair and Martin types.. Some surplus, many flown up from
S.America for repairs and some bank repossessions.
KMIA not being a "formal" scrapyard like KMHV or KDMA, the Miami airport got creative when it came to 'disposal' of scrap. If a flight school could haul it away, it was most likely for free.
Tonnes of tin (scrap), found a spot at the George T. Baker Aviation School on NW 42nd Avenue. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0501349/L/
Where this Boeing nose came from is a good question. Maybe some one on the staff at ERAU might know..?"
